| 单词 |
battering-ram |
| 释义 |
battering-ram [f. battering vbl. n. + ram. Cf. L. aries ram, battering-ram.] 1. An ancient military engine employed for battering down walls, consisting of a beam of wood, with a mass of iron at one end, sometimes in the form of a ram's head; (also fig.).
1611Bible Ezek. iv. 2 Set battering rams against it round about [cf. Coverdale Ezek. xxi. 22 Batell-rammes]. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiv. 330 The battering-rams had shaken the walls in several places. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng. 55 In the hands of Lancaster..the Bible..worked as a battering-ram against the Established Church. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. lix. 344 Battering-rams, each 150 feet long. 2. transf. A blacksmith's hammer suspended and worked horizontally.
1864in Webster. |

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